Well, that and legion of feckless crapweasels running our country into the ground with the ever mounting super-debt they’re piling up and the general tail-spin the world is in, etc. Yeah, not much optimism around here.

Mitchell – the same thing happens in Oregon, too. The largest population centers happen to be where the most people hold out their hands the most (and happen to be liberal, go figure) and therefore Portland and Eugene pretty much control what happens in the state.

I hear NY upstate feels the same way, generally about NYC.

I think I’m going to become a cowboy and compose poems about shi… uh, stuff in my backyard and on my porch.